“What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.”

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

The reward of a good deed is in having done it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

If it was woman who put man out of Paradise, it is still woman, and woman only, who can lead him back.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

When God says go forward, don’t even think about standing still.

We must mirror God’s love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrors of God’s love, so we may show Jesus by our lives.

When you walk with Jesus, defeat turns into victory.

God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

We know we’re coming full circle with God when we stand at a very similar crossroad where we made such a mess of life before, but this time we take a different road.

There is strife between God’s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.